Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours

By James Foxall and Wendy Haro-Chun

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • Audience and Organization
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Onward and Upward!
  • Part I. The Visual Studio Environment
  • Hour 1. A C# Programming Tour
  • Hour 2. Navigating C#
  • Hour 3. Understanding Objects and Collections
  • Hour 4. Understanding Events
  • Part II. Building a User Interface
  • Hour 5. Building FormsPart I
  • Hour 6. Building FormsPart II
  • Hour 7. Working with the Traditional Controls
  • Hour 8. Advanced Controls
  • Hour 9. Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms
  • Hour 10. Drawing and Printing
  • Part III. Making Things HappenProgramming!
  • Hour 11. Creating and Calling Methods
  • Hour 12. Using Constants, Data Types, Variables, and Arrays
  • Hour 13. Performing Arithmetic, String Manipulation, and Date/Time Adjustments
    • Performing Basic Arithmetic
    • Comparing Equalities
    • Understanding Boolean Logic
    • Manipulating Strings
    • Working with Dates and Times
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Hour 14. Making Decisions in C# Code
  • Hour 15. Looping for Efficiency
  • Hour 16. Debugging Your Code
  • Hour 17. Designing Objects Using Classes
  • Hour 18. Interacting with Users
  • Part IV. Working with Data
  • Hour 19. Performing File Operations
  • Hour 20. Controlling Other Applications Using Automation
  • Hour 21. Working with a Database
  • Part V. Deploying Solutions and Beyond
  • Hour 22. Deploying a Solution
  • Hour 23. Introduction to Web Development
  • Hour 24. The 10,000-Foot View
  • Appendix A. Answers to Quizzes/Exercises

Workshop

The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and get you thinking about how to put your knowledge into practice. The answers to the quiz are in Appendix A,"Answers to Quizzes/Exercises."

Quiz

1. To get only the remainder of a division operation, you use which operator?
2. Which operation is performed first in the following expression—the addition or the multiplication?

   

3. Does this expression evaluate to true or to false?

   ((true || true) && false) == !true
   

4. Which Boolean operator performs a logical negation?
5. The process of appending one string to another is called?
6. What property can be used to return the month of a given date?

Exercises

1. Create a project that has a single text box on a form. Assume the user enters a first name, a middle initial, and a last name into the text box. Parse the contents into three variables—one for each part of the name.
2. Create a project that has a single text box on a form. Assume the user enters a valid birthday into the text box. Use the date functions as necessary to tell the user the number of the month in which they were born.

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